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A football team made up of escaped convicts come together under a former cop turned coach...the convicts are released from prison to play football (American Football,right?)...The night before the big game the main con finds out the coach/cop guy has cancer...so the cop/coach's son want's to be like him (without the cancer) and the main convict adopts him at his father's death...Wow...I need an autographed copy...write it now...

You've got it a bit mixed up. They aren't escaped, some are on parole and others are just on like some kind of work release like thing to play on the team, to help turn their lives around by learning how to get along in a group dynamic. They know the cop has cancer, they dedicated the entire season to him, no way they would've gotten to the big game if they didn't have that to fight for.

"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.

the main prisoner is the son of the cop who has cancer. he is jailed throughout the novel with complete isolation from society. he goes insane. however, when there is the final match, he finally pulls his senses together and he escapes from prison in the most intelligent way possible, and plots it mastermindly. however, he just wants to escape from prison so he can be with his dad, the policeman, and play the sport once again.

then, with his jail escape, they win the game but then they notice he is a prisoner. he has been convicted of a murder he didn't do, he only injured the victim and then he died because of someone else. the policemen come to get him and throw him back into prison, and then the policeman, who is cleansed at heart, shoots the other guy who has come to arrest him and throw him into prison. this is an extraordinary risk he has taken for his son, and it shows he loves his son more than the police force he has been obliged too.

then, the before last chapter is the most emotional thing in the world. the policeman and sport coach begins to die of cancer, and then the policeman tells him he loves him and is sorry for his crime, his lack of faith in his father. they hug, the policeman really puts his heart into every word he says to his father. the father gives a solemn speech, an ages long speech in a kind of poetic way. then he dies, and his son cries, and cries, and cries.

the last chapter is a resolve chapter. there is another court case, and the son is given a better lawyer to testify for him. the court case features one of the prisoners coming forward, who was on the sports team, pleading guilty to killing the man who the guy got arrested for killing. then his sentence is over, and he is free from prison. throughout the novel, there was a sweet little girl who was hinted as being neglected and not having a true father. the prisoner adopts her, and he teaches her sport and he loves her more than anyone in the world.

this storys main characters will be hard prison inmates also large black men. it has the be football.

also, the star player has been in jail his whole life for stealing. he had bad parents and it was his only way to survive, and hes been in and out of jails since he was 11. he gets paroled right before the championship game(the big game he first saves the day in is held in the prison so he can go). one of the parole people is an old white guy who likes football. hes turned his life around thanks to the team so they are paroling him, and at the end of the hearing te white guy is like "I only have one more condition to grant this parole" and the guys like "Yes, sir ...?"

then it closes up on him "you give 'em hell out on that feild, son"

"YES SIR!"

then you go to the game scene

"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.